{"id":104822,"date":"2018-07-18T05:34:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T10:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=104822"},"modified":"2018-07-18T09:20:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T14:20:32","slug":"vw-to-state-after-beating-shawnee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/07\/18\/vw-to-state-after-beating-shawnee\/","title":{"rendered":"VW to state after beating Shawnee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMA &#8212; The Van Wert Cougars are headed to the ACME state baseball tournament for the third time in four years after beating Shawnee in back-to-back district games at Lima Central Catholic High School on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In game one, the Cougars broke a 0-0 tie with two runs in the bottom of the fourth and held on to defeat the Indians 2-1.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-96499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/VW-Cougars_stacked-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" \/>Hayden Maples scored on a sacrifice fly by TJ Reynolds to make it 1-0, then Lawson Blackmore scored an insurance run on a single to left by Nathan Temple.<\/p>\n<p>Shawnee\u2019s lone run came on an RBI single in the top of the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert had just three hits in the game \u2013 singles by Maples, Temple and Ryan Hollingsworth, while Shawnee had only five hits in the game.<\/p>\n<p>On the mound, Blackmore pitched all seven innings and struck out eight while walking just one.<\/p>\n<p>After a short break, the two teams played again and Owen Treece pitched a complete game and held the Indians to just three hits in a 4-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The sophomore struck out five and walked two.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s first run came in the bottom of the third, when Jaxson Amweg scored on a grounder by TJ Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians tied the game with a run in the top of the fourth, but the Cougars took the lead for good with a pair of runs in the bottom of the inning. Jake Lautzenheiser\u2019s RBI single plated Ryan Hollingsworth, then Hayden Maples hit an RBI single to left field that scored Parker Conrad.<\/p>\n<p>Maples, who finished with three of Van Wert\u2019s nine hits, added another run scoring single in the bottom of the sixth, driving in Conrad again.<\/p>\n<p>Lautzenheiser also had a trio of hits.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars (18-5) will play Versailles in the state tournament at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday at Defiance (<em>see Saturday&#8217;s full schedule below<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports LIMA &#8212; The Van Wert Cougars are headed to the ACME state baseball tournament for the third time in four years after beating Shawnee in back-to-back district games at Lima Central Catholic High School on Tuesday. In game one, the Cougars broke a 0-0 tie with two runs in the bottom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 11:51:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}